Monthly Archives: December 2013

Happy Holidays to you all!

Happy Holidays to you all! Hello guys, today we will learn … no we will not … Its holiday so off you go and have fun! But for those who are still online like me, I just want to tell you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! I don’t think we will be posting

Using utf8_decode to correct diacritics words

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Using utf8_decode to correct diacritics words I said in one my earlier articles that I’ve had to upgrade joomla 1.0 to joomla 3.2, not I’m not entirely sure at what point, but at the end, I’ve noticed that all my accent words were binary encoded in the database. This may or may not work in

The best free antivirus and firewalls for Windows and Linux

Firewall support

The best free antivirus and firewalls for Windows and Linux I have had some request the other day to help and secure a Windows PC since it was blocking the Internet connection from time to time or some links just failed to load. Yes, some viruses or malware do cause these symptoms. My very first

Upgrade from Joomla 1.0 to joomla 3.2

joomla upgrade

Upgrade from Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 3.2 The other day I had a request to upgrade a certain website from Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 3.2 version while still retaining the Joomla Fireboard (now known as Kunena). The request came from one my friends and he asked me if its possible to do this. After some

PHP Currency converter tutorial

Currency converter tutorial

PHP Currency converter tutorial This post will be a php currency converter tutorial where I’ll be showing you what I did in a few minutes based on the XML received directly from ECB (European Central Bank). The idea itself is simple and can be used in any projects you own / have. It can of

How to install haproxy as a reverse proxy

How to install haproxy as a reverse proxy This article was actually scheduled for some time now, I don’t really know why I left it in my draft here for so much time. I finally got the time to test and install haproxy as a reverse proxy server in front of apache web server. Install

How to search a string or array in another array in php

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How to search a string or array in another array in php In this post snipped I will be showing you how to easily search for a string or an array directly in another array in php really fast and easy with step by step examples. Scenario We have the bellow array with our persons names:

Find string in array in perl

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Find string in array in perl There are cases in your projects where you will most likely want to search an array for a specific element or string. There is no function like how it is in PHP for example that could do this automatically, but there is one core function that can be used

For and foreach loop in php

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For and foreach loop in php For and foreach loops are mostly used when working with arrays, but not only that of course. In my other examples, I created a simple snipped to show you the while loop in php, same example can be created with For loop. Scenario We have a small array and

How to create a while loop in PHP

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How to create a while loop in PHP In this post snipped I’ll show you an easy way to create simple while loops and multiple or nested while loops. Scenario Create a counting script that stops once it reaches 10 and it also prints the count to the user once the execution has finished. Solution

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